Flora of North America species comparison

segments green, broadly oblong to ovate to narrowly elliptic, (20–)4–60 × 2–3+ cm, low tuberculate;

areoles 7–11 per diagonal row across midstem segment, rhombic to subcircular, 2–4(–5) mm diam.;

wool brown.

1–6 per areole, absent or very highly reduced, or in marginal to nearly all areoles, erect to spreading, whitish, tan, or brown, setaceous only or setaceous and subulate, straight to slightly curved, basally angular-flattened, 1–10(–40) mm; 0–2 small bristlelike deflexed spines to 5 mm.

4–7 per areole, mostly in distal areoles, black to red-brown with conspicuous brown to yellow tips, fading gray;

longer spines ascending, usually straight, acicular, terete, 25–35 mm; 1–2 smaller spines deflexed, chalky white, to 10 mm; 0–4 additional very small spines.

along adaxial margin of areole and small, inconspicuous tuft, yellowish, aging brown, less than 2 mm.

in bushy crescent at adaxial edge of areole and dense subapical tuft, yellow to brown, aging blackish, of unequal lengths, to 5 mm.

inner tepals yellow to orange throughout, 25–50 mm;

filaments and anthers yellow;

style bright red;

stigma lobes yellow.

inner tepals yellow throughout, quickly fading to apricot, 25–30 mm;

filaments and anthers yellow;

style whitish;

stigma lobes greenish yellow to yellow.

yellow to orange to purple, 50–100 × 40–90 mm, fleshy to ± juicy, glabrous, usually spineless;

areoles 45–60, evenly distributed on fruit.

red-purple, green-yellow interior, spheric-obovoid to pyriform, 15–20 × 12 mm, fleshy, glabrous, spineless;

areoles 20–25.

pale tan, subcircular, 4–5 mm diam., warped;

girdle protruding to 1 mm.

tan to gray, subcircular, 3–4 mm diam;

girdle narrowly protruding.

= 88.

= 22.